Popcorn Alley in Telluride

The Senate, Silver Bell, Cribs make up the restored buildings of the "sporting district". The Senate was one of the many "female boarding houses" that was bustling with business between the 1880's and 1930's. The Silver Bell, built in 1890, operated as one of Telluride's many "Soda Parlours" during Prohibition, and its numerous entrances hint at the other services offered there. The three small Victorian houses standing in a row on Pacific Street, known as the Cribs, are all that remain of similar structures that lined both sides of the street all the way to Telluride Town Park.